A STRANGE CASE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1029, 11 November 1882, Page 3

A STRANGE CASE.

An exchange says : —The cataleptic patient at the Beaujeau Hospital remains as great a puzzle as before. It has been conclusively proved —Ist, that she is not the (laughter of the woman who claimed to be her mother ; 2nd, that she is the the daughter of peasants named Bertrand, of the village of Echalleu, Orar. Two years ago she ivas a postulant in a religious community at Seez, but her health proved an obstacle to her reception, the rule of the convent being very severe. She then took service as a domestic ; first in the family of M. Collin, Judge at Villers-su r-Marno, and next with a wealthy lady, Madame Leronx, at Arcrsaillcs. This lad} 7 took her to the seaside at Treport, but she went wrong with a workman whose acquaintance she had made iu the place, lost her situation in consequence, and went to live with the workman in question. She subsequently left this man, and came to Paris, to look up her brother, who is a sergeant in the army. She arrived in this city on the 11th May, and declares that she lost herself daring the night, and remembers nothing since then. As previously stated, she was found lying insensible on u bench in the Avenue ce hi Grande Amine, by a policeman on the morning of May 12 ; was carried to the Beaujeau hospital, and has remained in a state of lethargy ever since, with the exception of a few hours of semi-unconseiousuess, a fortnight ago, during which she was able to give the particulars summed up above, to recognise the persons in whose family she had been as a servant, and her brother, all of whom bad come to the hospital to see her, after the minute descriptions given of her appearance. Since her identification she has relapsed into the same strange state of seeming unconsciousness, and is also suffering from au acute attack of pneumonia, accompanied with a high fever. The physicians, who are watching her case with the greatest possible interest, have little hope of her recovery.